All events on Monday January 07

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Film
The Savages
Monday Jan 7 (1pm) @ Various locations
Until The Savages, director Tamara Jenkins had been languishing with a real case of the what-have-you-done-for-us-latelies; her last film, the incorrigible, smart-mouthed Slums of Beverly... View details »
The Savages

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Art
Douglas Gordon
Monday Jan 7 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves as a perfect description... View details »
Douglas Gordon
Art
Olafur Eliasson
Monday Jan 7 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential sculptures and video pieces... View details »
Olafur Eliasson
Art
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Monday Jan 7 @ de Young Museum More times »
Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as Chim) rubbed elbows with... View details »
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Art
Lucy McKenzie
Monday Jan 7 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At SFMOMA, McKenzie turns her... View details »
Lucy McKenzie
Art
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Monday Jan 7 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Robert Koch Gallery More times »
Free
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm's photographs of ravaged homes in Louisiana and Kansas, respectively, straddle the line between fine art and photojournalism. Simultaneously harrowing... View details »
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Performing Arts: Theatre
Speed-the-Plow
Monday Jan 7 @ American Conservatory Theater More times »
In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive Hollywood. Bobby Gould can't decide between producing... View details »
Speed-the-Plow
Music: Rock/Pop
Social Distortion
Monday Jan 7 @ The Fillmore More times »
Social Distortion are as inextricable from California as beaches, surfing, and endless summers. With a roots-punk style they've been honing since the late '70s, Social... View details »
Social Distortion
Art: Photography
Jeff Wall
Monday Jan 7 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not photographing," Wall stages scenes,... View details »
Jeff Wall
Film
Kurosawa-Mifune
Monday Jan 7 @ The Castro Theatre More times »
Rarely in the history of cinema has a director-actor collaboration been as thrillingly productive as that of Akira Kurosawa and Toshirô Mifune. Even more in... View details »
Kurosawa-Mifune
Film: Documentary
Meeting Resistance
Monday Jan 7 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
As the quagmire of the Iraq war draws on, the importance of hearing the stories of Iraqis whose lives have been irrevocably altered by... View details »
Meeting Resistance
Film: Documentary
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Monday Jan 7 @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping the radical discourses that... View details »
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Art: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Monday Jan 7 (10am–7pm) @ The Book Club of California More times »
Free
When he wasn't writing and illustrating his own darkly humorous and anachronistic books, Edward Gorey often lent his dexterous hand and moribund imagination to others.... View details »
The Book Art of Edward Gorey